Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - August 07, 2025
Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
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Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980)  
Outer space is no place for a person of breeding.
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Lady Violet Bonham Carter (1887 - 1969)  
The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.
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Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887), "Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit", 1887  
Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed.
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Herman Melville (1819 - 1891)  
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